Weight, shape, and mortality risk in older persons: Elevated waist-hip ratio, not high body mass index, is associated with a greater risk of death

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 449-460

  Price, Gill M ^a   Uauy, Ricardo ^a   Breeze, Elizabeth ^a   Bulpitt, Christopher J ^b   Fletcher, Astrid E ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Mortality; Obesity; Older persons; Waist hip ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33748425643     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/84.2.449     Document Type: Article

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